Alenka Jensterle-Doležal, born in 1959, is a poet, prose writer, essayist and literary scientist. She is a lecturer of the Slovenian and Slavic literatures at the Department of South Slavic and Balkan Studies at Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She worked as a Slovenian language teacher at universities in Prague, Krakow, New York and Nottingham, and as a research fellow at the Slavic Institute in Prague.